Same-sex partner barred from hospital

7:09 AM,
Nov. 14, 2013

Franciscan St. Francis Health-Indianapolis

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An Indianapolis woman says she can't visit her unconscious same-sex partner in a local hospital because the partner's mother has banned her from the room.

Sarah Bray, 34, says her partner was taken Wednesday morning to Franciscan St. Francis Health-Indianapolis after a drug overdose. Bray says she was able to visit her partner until her partner's mother arrived and ordered her to leave.

"This is a clear violation of LGBT hospital visitation rights," David Stevens, a spokesman for GetEqual Indiana, said about the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered individuals. Bray ...